Louisa

Peckham and Dulwich and the area which is now ED were all famed for there market gardens and which supplied London with it's various English fruits. I would pay a fortune to go back and see it as it was, I imagine it to be beautiful. I notice the old Kings Arms on the corner of EDR and Peckham Rye junction. That is one local landmark that has been sorely missed every since it was flattened during the Blitz. The rebuild pub was never upto the stanard of the old Inn, and is now a block of private flats I believe? Great map!

I've only just noticed this thread! Talk about missing the boat god damn it, I was looking forward to posting on this topic and now everyones talking about male genitals. Oh well.

Good grief how many veggies are there on here! I feel like i'm in a 60s hippy compound surrounded by sandle wearers!

Buses have always been unreliable, unlike trains, they have to travel around peckaed London roads which are highly unpredictable. I would suggest never relying on a bus, and those signs they put up never have worked. They just change to suit the lateness.

Peckham was a small village in Surrey back then, not sure what they did for sanitation but I bet the air was a little more healthy.

I cannot see a return to quality shopping on Rye Lane. I think the ship has sailed on that one. However, the station could at least be made to look more presentable.

I went to the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp on the eastern side of Berlin many years ago, and was shocked to see a gift shop and restaurant/cafe serving up sausages and beer! I was not amused at the time, but I guess it goes to show that the German people have moved on so much.

Mad Frankie Frazer (former ED resident, now often found around pubs in Peckham and Bermondsey) Famously associated with the south London brothers the Richardsons.

Older than some but younger than most

Keef can an older woman pick up blokes in there? I've not been in CPT for donkeys years, I used to know a guy called Tony, short with glasses who was a regular... Great guy.. he's probably dead now!

Try going into a pub in Bolton and asking for Mozzi or whatever you call, they would think you were taking the train to Liss.

whacky arty and farty.

I'm sending off an email to Pret homepage to petition for an ED Pret.

Pret a Manger gets my vote, why the hell cant the place opposite ED station be turned into one of those god damn it.

MW that picture was taken right back at the end of the last century, can you imagine what a great space it would have been then? I can imagine horse and carriage dropping off the wealthy folk who lived on Peckham Rye to catch a train into London. I think a town square as previously suggested, or perhaps even a roundabout with a more open entrance to the station with parking spaces outside.

Many years ago, a chap used to go in their to buy Nazi uniforms a friend of mine told me. I found this rather odd at the same. I have een helmets as I peer through the window, but have never seen a visible Nazi uniform.

The role of London mayor is not that important, it's just a figure head represting a large city on the world stage, central Government would never release significant powers which would potentially diminsh the role of the lower chamber.

Charles Dickens lived on the Friern estate, and based Pickwick Papers on characters he met in the village. He has to be nominated.

Great, we are gonna go from a lunatic communist to a bumbling fascist! Great to see democracy in action!

MadWorld, have you ever tried food from Boots? It can very tasty, and guess what, you can take it back and be fully refunded (statutory rights not affected) if its awful, unlike some of the restaurants you visit apparantly hehe Next time I visit a steak house i'm gonna ask if they can substitute the steak for anything else.. Could be interesting..

You can get a half decent veggie wrap in boots for 2.99.. I tried it and loved it!

Jonboy, anyone who has eaten at Le Moulin would suggest that by LL standards, it most certainly is a yardstick (and perhaps nort of Watford too). Why is a piece of cheese "not on these days"? They are not a vegetarian restaurant, they offered an alternative to a meat dish (bare in mind she picked a meat dish in the first place) and for one of a few reasons came up with that! What do you expect? Blood out of a stone? It's British customer service for you. Full stop.. Trying to imagine that they have a whole host of fresh vegetables and whacky arty farty dishes off the top of some standard chef whos on no more than 12k a year is living in fantasy land. Sorry!

I never knew there was a US state called Boston!

I am not going to disagree, on a basic and traditional level, British cuisine remains great, some wonderful fish restaurants in the westcountry/Wales and the west coast of Scotland. Some great local traditional pubs which serve local meats and veg, even in London we have traditional pie and eel shops serving up high quality but some would say very basic and bland cuisine. When we venture into the modern continental style with a British edge, we hit a brick wall in my opinion. Chains like the Beefeater and Harvester are still seen as the staple for a night out in places like Birmingham, Manchester, the London suburbs. You therefore cannot expect high qualty customer service across the board when all we are doing is diversifying into chains!

Sending the same dish back three times should have made the alarm bells ring in your head that perhaps this place was not what you were expecting. I would have not even sent the dish back, i'd have walked out or eaten it.